Where are they now?

Marc Carpenter (PhD History), 2019–20 Dissertation Fellow, has been promoted to associate professor of History and Political Science at the University of Jamestown. His book The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest is forthcoming in September 2025 from the Yale University Press.

Elio Garcia (PhD English), 2020–21 Dissertation Fellow, is an assistant professor of Literature and Film and associate editor of Kinaadman, an annual, peer-reviewed journal published at Xavier University.

Raye Hendrix (PhD English), 2023–24 Dissertation Fellow, has a poetry collection, What Good is Heaven, forthcoming from Texas Review Press in September.

Shuangting Xiong (PhD East Asian Literatures and Languages), 2020–21 Dissertation Fellow, is an assistant professor of Chinese at Bard College.